An elderly woman had to be cut out of her car after she crashed into several parked cars, a pedestrian and a garage door in Bookham.

The emergency services were called to Gilmais, in Great Bookham , at 5.17pm on Tuesday (January 27) after reports of a Honda Civic hitting two parked cars and the side of a house.

Stuart Puttock, crew commander at Leatherhead fire station, said the woman was in her 90s.

“She had been coming down Gilmais and for some reason lost control and hit a couple of parked cars then mounted the pavement where she clipped a pedestrian, hit a parked car on a driveway and went into the garage of a house,” he said.

Damage left on the garage after the crash

Fire crews from Leatherhead and Dorking attended and had to cut the door off the civic.

Mr Puttock said: “She didn’t seem to have any serious injuries and got out of the car. She was taken to hospital to be checked over. The pedestrian had an injured leg but it was a cut and nothing too serious.”

The woman hit a Mercedes and another car on the road before hitting a Nissan Qashqai and coming to a stop when she hit a garage door.

Mr Puttock said: “She was driving an automatic. Often we get incidents where something happens to the person and they hit the accelerator instead of the brake.”

Mr Puttock said that a structural engineer attended the property.

Tina Levy, who lives at the house where the car came to a stop, said: “I believe it was an elderly lady from down the road. I am not sure how she lost control. I am glad to hear she is okay, she had to be cut out.

"The car was my friend’s and had been parked on the road but I moved it in the driveway to keep it safe. Obviously that did not work.”